To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of becoming, never being, and so lives more powerfully in the imagination.
After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.
I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
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